Alejandro Portes

In “Should immigrants assimilate?”, Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou address the pressure to automatically assimilate that continues to hound second generation immigrants. They weigh the costs of this automatic assimilation and the effects of evident discrimination of a second generation immigrant that follows if assimilation is refused. Mary C. Waters’ article, “Debating Immigration”, acknowledges the inconsistencies of public debate and credible studies dealing with second generation immigrants and their assimilation. Waters’ argument widens the scope of Portes and Zhou’s take on the process of assimilation by providing a positive perspective and hindsight on the topic. Waters takes into account Portes and Zhou’s argument on how a second generation…

knowledge from my interactive design and Authoring classes.over the years I became stronger on the computer as far as coloring it has been one of my weaknesses since I was younger weather it is with marker, paint, or pastels and as I grew older working more and more on the computer those weaknesses grew. When I start creating, I always keep the mindset of creating what I like, no matter how good it is if I do not like it I usually will not share it with anyone but myself. A lot of the art I make…

Described as a beautiful and well proportioned woman, Hypatia was a woman able to make a profound difference in the mathematics and science of the present day. Hypatia is believed to be the most notable and prominent women in mathematics until Marie Curie. The exact birth year of Hypatia is highly debated, but the most common theory is that she was born in 370 A.D.her father was Theon of Alexandria. Theon was a professor at the university of Alexandria. Very little is known of Hypatia's mother.…

“Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.” This quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky talks about how living in an imperfect world will impact us as people, though the quote doesn’t talk about dystopias directly, the genre is an example of how the world around us affects our minds. Though written in 2 extremely different dystopias, Flawed by Cecilia Ahern and Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse demonstrate an originally accepted hero, who later fights an…

The movie Babel is revolves around four cultures and families that are, in one way or another, linked to each other. The movie takes place in Japan, Morocco, America, and Mexico. In each setting the culture is exhibited in great detail and many stereotypes of each are proven to be false. In Babel, Yasujiro Wataya, father of Chieko Wataya, had given Hassan his rifle in thanks for being his guide. Hassan later markets off the rifle to Abdullah, father of Yussef and Ahmed. Yussef later takes aim at…

The 2006 film Babel starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett focuses on four different, yet interrelated plot lines: Two young Moroccan goat herders, an American couple on vacation in Morocco, a deaf-mute Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes the American couple’s children across the US Border without the parents’ permission. The film is mostly about people in different parts of the world who are unknowingly affected by each other in different ways. This film relates to…

Portes, A., & Stepick, A. (1985). Unwelcome immigrants: The labor market experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian refugees in South Florida. American Sociological Review, 493-514. The article, “Unwelcome Immigrants: The labor market experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida”, by Alejandro Portes, and Alex Stepick, gives an in depth perspective of the struggles of Cuban, and Haitian refugee who immigrated to America in 1980. The article focuses on…

‘exposes second-generation children to the adversarial subculture developed by marginalized native youths.’” While Mexican culture is not to blame for the poor conditions which plague the city centers of Los Angeles, it does in a sense perpetuate the attitudes which contribute to the concentration of those poor conditions within ethnic enclaves. Once first-generation Latino immigrants realize the atmosphere of discrimination towards Latinos present in the white United States, their initial…

Dr. Rubén Rumbaut and Dr. Alejandro Portes (2014) have completed research analyzing the immigration of different groups to the United States and their SES outcomes and spatial mobility. Overall, sociology has used quantitative approaches to discover associations between inequality and race/ethnicity of groups of people, although these are very useful, Latino immigrants and factors that influence them are still not fully understood; a mixed methods approach with a community-based intervention…

reduced to a low skilled, low paying jobs, never realizing the American dream of economic opportunity” (Mujica 47). English Only members say that they do not meet the qualifications to get well-paying jobs because the non-English speakers cannot communicate with their coworkers or customers. The English Only members feel like they should be forced to learn English because if many do not they will be put on Welfare and the working U.S. citizens will have to pay for them and their children to live…